Studio Ghibli Co-Founder Talks About Hayao Miyazaki and the Future of Animation in Promo Video

I’ve got an interesting video here for you to watch released by GKIDS, the distributor of Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and The Heron. The video features Studio Ghibli Co-Founder Toshio Suzuki speaking about director Hayao Miyazaki and the future of animation.

Suzuki explains what inspired Miyazaki to make The Boy and The Heron and explains that the movie is an “autobiography of sorts. Covering his birth up till how he was today.”

When talking about the future of animation, he said: “I think that ultimately, whether you make it by hand or on a computer, you need to have artistic aptitude or you can’t make anything good. That’s how I see things. Still, there are some think that only CG can do, and the same is true of hand drawn. To put it simply, take this film as an example. The way we had a human appear from inside of a bird, you could only do that by hand. CG couldn’t handle it. So I think they’ll each develop in their own way.”

I’ve always loved and preferred hand-drawn animation, and I would love it if more studios embraced it. Maybe one day, but right now Hollywood just likes their CG animated projects.